Project description:The largest and most diverse class of eukaryotic transcription factors contain Cys2-His2 zinc fingers (C2H2-ZFs), each of which typically binds a DNA nucleotide triplet within a larger binding site. Frequent recombination and diversification of their DNA-contacting residues suggests that these zinc fingers play a prevalent role in adaptive evolution. Very little is known about the function and evolution of the vast majority of C2H2-ZFs, including whether they even bind DNA. We determined in vivo binding sites of 39 human C2H2-ZF proteins, and correlated them with potential functions for these proteins. We expressed GFP-tagged C2H2-ZF proteins in stable transgenic HEK293 cells. Chromatin immunoprecipitation was performed as described before (Schmidt et al., Methods, 2009), and ChIP samples along with several control samples from different experimental batches were sequenced on Illumina HiSeq 2000. Reads were mapped to hg19 (GRCh37) assembly, and peaks were identified by MACS using an experiment-specific background that controls for various biases, such as the Sono-Seq effect as well as potential co-purification of targets of other (interacting) proteins.
Project description:Polycomb Group Proteins (PcGs) is critical in defining the epigenetic blueprint for animal and plant development. In plants, loss of different PcGs display both common and unique phenotypic defects, yet little is known about how these are established. Here, based on quantitative comparison of epigenomics data from mutants of key PcG components in Arabidopsis seedlings, we found that the PcG partners of CURLY LEAF (CLF), one of the major plant H3K27 trimethyltransferases, determines its selectivity in repressing gene loci involved in distinct developmental programs. The non-redundant role of CLF in determining flower development is specifically associated with HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN1 (LHP1). This context dependent effect of CLF corresponds well with tissue-biased target gene expression, and importantly, to differential co-occupancy of transcription factors, such as MADS box and B3-domain transcription factors. These results provide valuable insight as to the dynamic interplay between different PcGs and their collaborative control of plant development. To compare the effect of different PcGs on epigenetic structure from the genome-wide scale, we used chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughtput sequencing (ChIP-seq) to characterize the genome-wide binding profile of H3K27me3 in Col, clf-29, tfl2-2, atbmi1a/b and atring1a/b ; To investigate the functional consequence of the distinct H3K27me3 profile controlled by different combinations of PcGs, we characterized the transcriptome change in PcG mutants, including Col, clf-29, tfl2-2, lhp1-6, atbmi1a/b, atring1a/b, and clf29swn21.
Project description:We establish an experimental and bioinformatic pipeline using 3SEQ to quantitatively measure mRNA expression and reliably determine 3' end formation by sequencing polyadenylated transcripts. When applied to purified mouse embryonic skin stem cells direct differentiation lineages, we identify 15,651 UTRs representing 10,442 distinct mRNAs that are abundantly expressed in the skin. We determine that ~80% of UTRs are formed by using canonical A[A/U]UAAA polyadenylation signals, whereas ~20% of UTRs utilize alternative signals. We demonstrate that comparing with qPCR, our RNA-Seq approach can precisely measure mRNA fold-change and accurately determine the expression of mRNAs over four orders of magnitude. We also reported 453 out of 10,442 genes (4.3%) show differential 3' end usage between skin stem cells and their direct differentiation lineages. Among them, core components of the miRNA pathway, including Dicer, Dgcr8, Xpo5 and Ago2, show dynamic 3' UTR formation patterns, indicating a self-regulatory mechanism. Together, our quantitative analysis reveals a dynamic picture of mRNA 3' end formation in closely related somatic stem cell lineages. Perform 3SEQ in E14 epidermal basal cells and E14 epidermal suprabasal cells.
Project description:Fragment data of GC,HC,GB in paper titled Circulating Cell-Free mtDNA Fragmentomics for Early Detection of Gastric Cancer and Precancerous Lesions
Project description:Here we report the genome-wide set of factors bound by NKX3.1 or control IgG in human prostate cancer cells (LNCaP). Examination of NKX3.1 binding in LNCaP prostate cancer cells
Project description:Here we find that ZNF750 activates epidermal differentiation genes and represses progenitor genes as part of two distinct protein complexes Identified genomic binding sites of ZNF750 and its interacting proteins
Project description:More than 3.5 million raw DGE tags were obtained in each library. The clean tags in each sample ranged from 3.35 to 3.63 million, and the distinct clean tags ranged from 93,593 to 139,389. The 21 bp DGE clean tags were mapped to sweet potato transcripts. Then, we compared 7 libraries pair-wisely so that 21 pairs of comparisons were implemented. Among these comparisons, we found that 4,721 to 12,151 transcripts had significant changes in expression, and the average number was 9,657. We also observed a large number of specifically expressed transcripts between each two libraries. The expression profiles of those genes involved in root development and carbohydrates accumulation were characterized. Moreover, other genes of interest, such as potentially abiotic stress tolerance and insect resistance, were also characterized. 7 samples are examined: young leaves, mature leaves, stems, fibrous roots, initial tuberous roots, expanding tuberous roots and harvest tuberous roots.
Project description:Volvariella volvacea is one of a few commercial cultivated mushrooms mainly using straw as carbon source. In this study, the genome of V. volcacea was sequenced and assembled. A total of 286 genes encoding carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in V. volvacea were identified and annotated. Among 15 fungi with sequenced genomes, V. volvacea ranks the seventh in the number of genes encoding CAZymes. In addition, the composition of glycoside hydrolases in V. volcacea is dramatically different from other basidiomycetes: it is particularly rich in members of the glycoside hydrolase families GH10 (hemicellulose degradation) and GH43 (hemicellulose and pectin degradation), and the lyase families PL1, PL3 and PL4 (pectin degradation) but lacks families GH5b, GH11, GH26, GH62, GH93, GH115, GH105, GH9, GH53, GH32, GH74 and CE12. Analysis of genome-wide gene expression profiles of 3 strains using 3'-tag digital gene expression (DGE) reveals that 246 CAZyme genes were expressed even in potato destrose broth medium. Our data also showed that the formation of a heterokaryon strain could dramatically increase the expression of a number of genes which were poorly expressed in its parental homokaryon strains. Using the 3'-tag digital gene expression (DGE), we compared the gene expression profiles among 2 homokaryotic V. volvacea strains PYd15 and PYd21, and one heterokaryotic strain H1521, which is a hybrid strain of PYd15 and PYd21.
Project description:Here we use MeRIP-Seq to analyze global adenosine methylation (m6A) in mRNAs in the midbrain and striatum of Fto-deficient mice. We find that Fto deficiency leads to increased methylation within a subset of mRNAs important for neuronal signaling, including many within the dopaminergic signaling pathway. Collectively, our results show that Fto regulates demethylation of specific mRNAs in vivo, and this activity relates to control of dopaminergic transmission. Profiling of m6A in midbrain and striatum from FTO knockout mice